What’s in a name? Xbox LIVE censorship goes overboard

So, I just bought Call of Duty 4 on Sunday, even though I had posted a couple of weeks before that it was $40 bucks.

I rush straight to the online and while a buddy of mine sets up the match, I go ahead and mess around with some of the new features from the dashboard update. I see the bio option and start thinking about writing up about the little town I live in, hoping to run into some local residents online. The first thing I do is try to set up my name and it won’t let me. My nickname is Chuy, which is pronounced Chewy, which is also the way I spell it.

My tag here on GGL is also my gamer tag. The thing is that Chuy is a nickname for: Jesus. Yes, like the Christ. My real name is Jesus. I can understand them having a problem with it, but how come there wasn’t an issue in the past year when I’ve downloaded about thirty XBL Arcade games and bought who knows how many points?

Everytime I would purchase some points, up would come my credit card info which included my full name. I mean, it wasn’t blurred out or anything. I didn’t continue with the bio or anything. I was just going to say, well, fuck it. I WAS going to do that, but instead I e-mailed Xbox customer support. Should they make an exception for me? I don’t know. I just know that my name is Jesus (hey zeus), not Jesus (jeez us). I’ll keep you posted on what they do and don’t let me do.